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Gozu
(Directed by Takashi Miike with Hideki
Sone, Sho Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino)
Takashi
Miike, the incredibly prolific director of Audition and Ichi
the Killer, is without a doubt one of the most singular talents
based simply on the strength of Gozu.
How
on earth did he persuade producers to give him money for a film
which defies the solitary marketing strapline by mischieviously
giving genre a very hard time?
Horror,
fairytale odyssey, 'Lynchian' farce, Yakuza crime caper, 'gorey'
soft porn with a hard crude edge... God only knows where it sits.
unfathomable
 The
story goes that Minami is ordered to take Ozaki, his senior in the
Azamawari crew, out to a Yakuza dump in Nagoya.
On
the journey he accidentally kills Ozaki and misplaces the body,
only to begin an unfathomable odyssey where he encounters a rattle-bag
of strange lo-fi fairytale loons.
He eventually finds his senior once again nestling within the womb
of a beautiful woman!
Gozu
is like an amalgam of all the fleeting pseudo incestuous fantasies
that ever entered your head and which ignore the exit sign. This
is one strange, scatalogical but refreshing mixed bag in which Miike
flaunts his talent with outrageous confidence.
Hollywood
wouldn't touch this offering from the East with a barge pole! It
just wouldn't dare.
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